Christos Kozyrakis is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University. He is also the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell faculty scholar. Christos works on architectures, runtime environments, and programming models for parallel computer systems. His current research focuses on transactional memory, architectural support for security, and power management techniques. Christos joined Stanford in 2002 after receiving a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His alma mater is the University of Crete in Greece. Christos' first name in full is "Christoforos"...
News and Updates
- I am co-chairing the PC for the 2011 HiPEAC conference to be held in Heraklion, Crete (my hometown :).
- What cloud computing means for architects from the 2009 WIOSCA workshop panel.
- My research and teaching summary.
- The slides for The Case for Hardware Support for Transactional Memory.
- My notes on future directions for transactional memory research from panels at the Transact 2007 workshop, the 2007 MSR Faculty Summit, and the PPoPP'07 conference.
- A good introduction to transactional memory and the TM tutorial slides from the ACACES'08 summer school and the PACT'07 conference.
- A somewhat dated overview of the TCC project.
- The Phoenix system for MapReduce programming in multi-core systems.
- How to Have Bad Career as a Grad Student (check out the original too).
- If you are a student interested in working with me, read this first.
